They’ve gotten very strange in the past year or so. I’ve seen multiple dbzer0 users, including two admins, do complete 180s on tankie bullshit, and it’s rather bizarre.

My best guess is that tankies offer them a sense of community, which is how many terminally online folk get drawn into it. People who have a deep desire for community will overlook moral issues if invited to be a part of that community, and even adopt, consciously or unconsciously, those positions in order to better ‘fit in’ with the community.

In a time when the real world is more recognizably hostile than ever, or at least for as long as most of us here have been alive (insofar as we are both aware of it and noting that it is backsliding rather than improving), online communities probably seem quite tempting to hew closer to.

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[–] spectre@hexbear.net 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not like this is an easy community to be a part of either. There's a lot of history and "advanced struggle sessions" that an average Internet user is not going to be able to partake in at all without months of lurking the site and consuming off-site materials (theory etc)

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The FBI complaining that infiltrating communists is hard because they make you read

[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

fedposting

Looks down at the unopened copy of "Superimperialism"

"I'm not getting paid enough for this"